Quindaro Chindowan
Saturday, April 24, 1858

THE KANZAS CITY OUTRAGE

On Tuesday evening a large number of the citizens of Quindaro metro gave some expression to the feelings with which they regard the recent unproveked attack upon Gen. POMEROY, made by Col. TITUS.

A.J. Rowell, Esq, was appointed Chairman and S.N. Simpson, Secretary.

The committee appointed the previous evening to draft resolutions for the occasion, was requested to report. Ther following was submitted:

On Tuesday, April 13th inst., our fellow-citizen, General SAMUEL C. POMEROY, whilst in Kanzas City, Mo., attending to a legitimate business which required his presence there, was without having given any provacation, violently assaulted by one Col. Titus, notorious for the part he has borne in past history of Kanzas. This attack was made upon Gen. Pomeroy at the Court House where his business required him to be--and was made not only at mid-day but like wise in the immediate presence of a large number of the influential citizens, none of whom offered to interfere either to prevent the attack, or shield the victim. From the threats now known to have been previously and frequently made by Titus, it is certain that the assault was premeditated, and made upon Gen. Pomeroy because he had been and is now a prominent Free-state man and agent of the Emigrant Aid Society.

In view of the circumstances attendant upon this assault--especially the deliverated and reiterated threats made by the Ruffian; the certainty that it was perpetrated (if not permitted) because the victim was a Free-state man; the astounding apathy manifested by the many citizens of Kanzas City who witnessed it--in view of these circumstances as well as the fact that strenuous efforts arc being made to disguise the real character of that town in order to induce Free-state men of Kanzas to trade and Free-state emigrants to Kanzas to debark there--we, the citizens of Quindaro, do hereby Resolve:

I. That we regard this attack upon a peaceable man, with feelings of unqualified condemnation; and pronounce it and act characteristic of a barbaric age, disgraceful to any community which would tolerate or excuse it.

II. That we regard the favor with which Titus received in Kanzas City as being discreditable to that place and an evidence that such and outrage was to be expected.

III. That the bearing of the citizens juring this assault is a clear proof that all the professions and asseverations by resolutions and bulletins, now and heretofore, are not sufficient guaranty for Free-State men against gross indignitees and brutal assaults.

IV. That Free-state men will consult their personal safety as will as their best interests by avoiding a town where men are subject to assaults from notorious Ruffians and are persecuted and injured for opinion's sake.

(Signed)
P. T. COLBY,
Wm. SHEPHERD,
J. M. WALDEN,
GEO. E. BUDINGTON,
ALFRED GRAY,
G. E. UPSON,
A. J. ROWELL.

Remarks pertinent to the subject under consideration were made by D.N. Simpson, and others, after which the report of the Committe was adopted by acclamation.

A motion was made and adopted to publish the proceedings in the CHINDOWAN.